A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons at their late solemn fast…A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons at their late solemne fast…

First, I say, let us do all the good we can, God is not pleased with us, unless we be ashamed and humbled for former guiltiness. Be zealous and repent ^lsaith Christ to the Laodiceans, be zealous in time coming, and repent of your former lukewarmness. What fruit had ye then in those things whereof now ye are ashamed? ^msaith the Apostle to the Saints at Rome, of whom ⁿhe saith plainly, that they were servants to righteousness, and had their fruit unto holiness; but that is not all, they were also ashamed while they looked back upon their old faults; which is the rather to be observed, because ^oit maketh against the Antinomian error, now a foot. It hath a clear reason for it, for without this, God is still dishonoured, and not restored to his glory. O Lord ^p(saith Daniel) righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces. Those two go together. We must be confounded, that God may be glorified. We must be judged, that God may be justified: our mouths must be stopped, ⟨p. 11⟩and laid in the dust, that ^qthe Lord may be just when he speaketh, and clear when he judgeth. And as ^rthe Apostle teacheth us, that if we judge our selves, we shall not be judged of God; and by the rule of Contraries, if we judge not our selves, we shall be judged of God: So say I now, if we give glory to God, and take shame and confusion of faces to our selves, God shall not confound us, nor put us to shame. But if we will not be confounded and ashamed in our selves, God shall confound us, and pour shame upon us. If we loath not our selves, God shall loath us.

First, I say, let us doe all the good we can, God is not pleased with us, unlesse we be ashamed and humbled for former guiltinesse. Be zealous and repent